An article about using a DVD writer has appeared in a magazine which I buy. The article suggests that before using a DVD writer one has to do a couple of things one of which is to place in Grub's (if using Grub) menu.lst, in the line headed "kernel", the entry " hdx=ide-scsi", where x = the DVD's device number. I know that Suse has already done this for me when I installed the DVD writer but when I looked in menu.lst I found that the entry "hdd=ide-scsi hddlun-0" appears 4 times in consecutive order. My question is: wouldn't just the one entry be sufficient and the other 3 can be deleted? (And why did the 4 identical entries get created?) The other suggetsion made in the article is that one ought to go and download the program called ProDVD (plus cdrecord-wrapper.sh and readcd) from ftp.berlios.de and install this application. But Suse (v9) has k3b which is supposed to be the all-singing, all-dancing DVD applic. Question: do I need ProDVD or do I just go with k3b? (I haven't used the DVD burner yet on Suse hence my question(s).) Cheers. -- Indecision is the key to flexibility.